Grammar Rules

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We often post lessons that focus on specific parts of grammar on our website, but here’s a review to see how much you remember about grammar generally. Hopefully, it will help you understand what rules you need to revise! Let us know which rules you found difficult and we will try to post some lessons based on those rules.

Are the rules below true or false? Good luck!

  • 1. To form the present perfect we use have/has plus the past participle.



  • 2. The past simple tense is used for events that started in the past and continue into the present.



  • 3. Some verbs cannot be used in the present continuous e.g. love, like, agree.



  • 4. To form a superlative you add ‘most’ or ‘est’ to the adjective.



  • 5. We use ‘an’ before nouns that begin with a consonant e.g. an chair.



  • 6. We use the second conditional to talk about unreal situations in the present or the future e.g. If I lived in California, I would go to Disneyland every weekend.



  • 7. The infinitive is the ‘ing’ form of a verb e.g. swimming.



  • 8. We use the before most countries e.g. the England, the Spain.



  • 9. Adverbs describe a verb e.g. the girl ran quickly.



  • 10. The past continuous is often interrupted by the present simple e.g. I was cooking dinner when I see a huge spider.







Comments

the rule number 3

This rule confuses me. Could you please describe appropriate rule for it.

about rule 3

There are some verbs mostly these which express something which we can't put in continuous forms

The last one

Why the tenth is false?

Wrong tense

Past simple, not present simple.

Chris

help

It's great to see people are helping each other in these courses. Gives me enough energy to keep on trying.

Thnks a lot

After passing this test I was looking for appropriate examples for myself and have found it.
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Longman
I like to visit her as often as possible.
Oxford:
I like to be the centre of attention.
Cambridge:
He likes to spend his evenings in front of the television.
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3,7

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